DaGambler's 4k HPS 99 Plant Hempy Grow

raiderman

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I've seen the plants you grow, i'm sure you'll get them back on track with or w/o a moisture meter :D

stick in a finger knuckle deep. i just like a moisture meter for clones.. the container is too small for a finger and more accurate at getting down where the root zone is forming.
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thanx bro,its brothers like you that hep make this forum an asset.:bigjoint:
 

DaGambler

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Clone Update - Day 12'ish:

about 25 of the clones looked like they weren't ready for the real world after a day in the open air... so those two dozen went back under the domes for a couple days.

With respect for Today's Horoscope:
"Everything is there for you to excel, make improvements or enjoy your life - just make the effort."
Tommorow i will be taking another 80 clones. If i am not Very Pleased with what happens during flowering with the Durban Poison, White Widow and Power Skunk ... i want to be prepared to move forward with a crop that is purely Mr. Nice and White Russian. The second batch will be about 2 weeks behind the first and have some catching up to do, but i'm not overly concerned as they will go to the flower room at the same time and the girls in there now are SOG'ing well enough even though some are 1 or 2 months older than the others.
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growman3666

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Clone Update - Day 12'ish:

about 25 of the clones looked like they weren't ready for the real world after a day in the open air... so those two dozen went back under the domes for a couple days.

With respect for Today's Horoscope:
"Everything is there for you to excel, make improvements or enjoy your life - just make the effort."
Tommorow i will be taking another 80 clones. If i am not Very Pleased with what happens during flowering with the Durban Poison, White Widow and Power Skunk ... i want to be prepared to move forward with a crop that is purely Mr. Nice and White Russian. The second batch will be about 2 weeks behind the first and have some catching up to do, but i'm not overly concerned as they will go to the flower room at the same time and the girls in there now are SOG'ing well enough even though some are 1 or 2 months older than the others.
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lol they were still in their training bras
 

raiderman

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lol they were still in their training bras
say bro i always leave my lid on till i see rooots even if its 2 weex, then transplant, bongsmilie. theyll go in to stall if not , and temps stay tropical in the dome...,lol.sounds like your gonna CC a bit.i keep my thermostat on 80 F on my mat. roots 7 to 8 day.95% success rate.got a pound of white widow las year jus in my closet,lol, i love that strain, wicked bud pattern .very wide buds .
 

DaGambler

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say bro i always leave my lid on till i see rooots even if its 2 weex, then transplant, bongsmilie. theyll go in to stall if not , and temps stay tropical in the dome...,lol.sounds like your gonna CC a bit.i keep my thermostat on 80 F on my mat. roots 7 to 8 day.95% success rate.got a pound of white widow las year jus in my closet,lol, i love that strain, wicked bud pattern .very wide buds .
ya, i'm less worried about the White Widow than i am the Durban Poison and the Power Skunk... i'd like to keep flowering time to 9 weeks total or less.
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poundpusher2009

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Wow very nice grow. Have you ever thought about going vertical with that much light power you would probably double your yield. I would assume if you built 2 flowering room with 2400 watts a piece you could probably harvest around 10 - 14 pounds with around 40 plants in each room. Much more efficient and economical. But overall a great grow. I wish you the best on your business opportunity.
 

DaGambler

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Wow very nice grow. Have you ever thought about going vertical with that much light power you would probably double your yield. I would assume if you built 2 flowering room with 2400 watts a piece you could probably harvest around 10 - 14 pounds with around 40 plants in each room. Much more efficient and economical. But overall a great grow. I wish you the best on your business opportunity.
If i were running (12) 1000w HPS bulbs in that same room (13' by 15') then two tier vertical would be the only way to go. SeeMoreBuds has some nice -fast turnover- videos using 2400 watts... his best was 6 lbs. w/that lumens, but the normal would be more like 4 lbs.. (8 lbs. from two rooms) The thing w/vertical, as with any other setup is that the more plants you have, the faster you can turn them over... so with only 40 plants in a vertical setup, 20 per level, you'd have some veg. time in front of you... and training the plants, etc. SeeMoreBuds got more from his flat grow not even using CO2 (6 lbs.) than any vertical garden that i have seen using the same watts (2400). I challenge you to find one vertical grower using that wattage that averages 6 lbs. a grow... because they seem to run into the same barrier that flat growers run into - getting more than 2lbs per 1000watts used.

Thanks for the compliments and fer stopping by my grow dude. I've deffinitely considered going vertical with these lights (2k and two levels per 8' by 8' octagon)... but i have been underwhelmed the more that i looked into it.
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DaGambler

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2nd Batch of Clones:

Pic 1: Before being trimmed up, right after being taken.
Pic 2: After being trimmed up, ready now for the domes. After the domes i won't touch them again for about 7 days unless they look thirsty or there are yellow leaves to cut off. As long as there is good humidity on the dome I don't worry about misting them.

(Dip N' Grow and Miracle Grow Seed Starting Potting Soil)
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DaGambler

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so what happen with that other shit?
I feel like a newb for growing out some of the free seeds that i got... i shoulda just stuck with the two selections i had made. That being said, I'm sure i'll still have 65 or more females finish out the first crop. On the next crop i'll have a full house w/no surprises and all nice ladies.

Brief Summary:

Started with 10 seeds Sensi's G13xHP (Mr. Nice) only got two to grow (one of which was female) got more seed
Started 10 seeds Serious's White Russian, 5 seeds G13 Labs Power Skunk, 1 seed G13 Labs Durban Poison, 1 seed G13 Labs White Widow, 1 seed G13 Labs Northern Lights (never sprouted). Cloned all these bitches till i got up to 99+ plants that i transplanted into Hempy Buckets in the flower room.

-Other Shit- (Started w/99): This is Day 16 Flower Cycle - Down to 72 plants (I killed all of the Power Skunk all but a couple of the White Widow... both from G13 Labs and THEY get a big -REP for those two. My 'Feminized' Power Skunk were all male except for one hermaphrodite. And the White Widow was an inferior specimen. They'd a'done me a favor by keeping those Freebies. I do seem to like their Durban Poison however... and will probably keep some on hand.

1st Clone Batch (Started w/160): This is Day 17 after being cut - killed all 8 Power Skunk clones and all 25 White Widow clones along with the G13xHP (male donor) clones. Down to around 106 confirmed females from Durban Poison, Mr. Nice, and White Russian.

2nd Clone Batch: Day 1 after being cut. Took 120 cuttings from confirmed Mr. Nice and White Russian females. These will go into the flower room at the same time as the first batch... they will be just a tad behind growth-wise some 6 weeks from now.

:fire: Power Skunk Must Die !!!:fire:
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Thundercat

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I wish my durban had sprouted, but unfortunatly it did not. But my power skunks are growing really nicely. Those clones look nice gambler, I'm about to take some more off my plants. I think 2 purple power clones, and 2 power skunks actually.
 

DaGambler

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I wish my durban had sprouted, but unfortunatly it did not. But my power skunks are growing really nicely. Those clones look nice gambler, I'm about to take some more off my plants. I think 2 purple power clones, and 2 power skunks actually.
thanks man.
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gotot

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I feel like a newb for growing out some of the free seeds that i got... i shoulda just stuck with the two selections i had made. That being said, I'm sure i'll still have 65 or more females finish out the first crop. On the next crop i'll have a full house w/no surprises and all nice ladies.

Brief Summary:

Started with 10 seeds Sensi's G13xHP (Mr. Nice) only got two to grow (one of which was female) got more seed
Started 10 seeds Serious's White Russian, 5 seeds G13 Labs Power Skunk, 1 seed G13 Labs Durban Poison, 1 seed G13 Labs White Widow, 1 seed G13 Labs Northern Lights (never sprouted). Cloned all these bitches till i got up to 99+ plants that i transplanted into Hempy Buckets in the flower room.

-Other Shit- (Started w/99): This is Day 16 Flower Cycle - Down to 72 plants (I killed all of the Power Skunk all but a couple of the White Widow... both from G13 Labs and THEY get a big -REP for those two. My 'Feminized' Power Skunk were all male except for one hermaphrodite. And the White Widow was an inferior specimen. They'd a'done me a favor by keeping those Freebies. I do seem to like their Durban Poison however... and will probably keep some on hand.

1st Clone Batch (Started w/160): This is Day 17 after being cut - killed all 8 Power Skunk clones and all 25 White Widow clones along with the G13xHP (male donor) clones. Down to around 106 confirmed females from Durban Poison, Mr. Nice, and White Russian.

2nd Clone Batch: Day 1 after being cut. Took 120 cuttings from confirmed Mr. Nice and White Russian females. These will go into the flower room at the same time as the first batch... they will be just a tad behind growth-wise some 6 weeks from now.

:fire: Power Skunk Must Die !!!:fire:
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sounds like the next batch will be awesome, where do you grow?(PM me if you want). can we get some more pics?
 

raiderman

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sounds like the next batch will be awesome, where do you grow?(PM me if you want). can we get some more pics?
pics,pics,pics,lol.jus jkin. i did it the chicken shit way , i bought all my seeds for plants,jus few clones,,i had 25 rooted BM clones and haf hermied on me tho i picked them off and got it 98% seedless and tossed the clones because of the hermie prob. ,DP fem version suks,2 times ina row.jus ordred 3-5 packs of Blueberry skunk fem.everyone has bragged on this one i'll be a cloning fool with these,lol.. i already have a few pacs of reg. DP BB seeds ,lol. i ordered mine from seed boutique , 30% cheaper than attitude, 3.00 shipping and they always get here in texas in one week. looks great , glad to see you get the ball rolling.later.
 

raiderman

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Wow very nice grow. Have you ever thought about going vertical with that much light power you would probably double your yield. I would assume if you built 2 flowering room with 2400 watts a piece you could probably harvest around 10 - 14 pounds with around 40 plants in each room. Much more efficient and economical. But overall a great grow. I wish you the best on your business opportunity.
shoot ,you wish,lol, maybe outside bro,lol.
 

DaGambler

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sounds like the next batch will be awesome, --where do you grow?--(PM me if you want). can we get some more pics?
i'm in the Dirty Dirty, just like Raiderman. i'll snap a couple off pretty soon. I started the journal once things were already going pretty good... and try to avoid too much anti-climactic information or pics :D
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DaGambler

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Update Pic 1: total of around 220 clones for the next crop. As soon as the current crop is harvested they will go 12/12 under the HPS lights. I'm looking at putting 2 into each 3 gallon Hempy Bucket. By then they will have been under flourescents for 7-9 weeks, have been topped once... and will be around 12" tall.

Pic 2: One of the auto-flowering phenotype White Russians at 18 days into flowering. They don't all look like this :D I wish they did. I have leaned as heavily toward the 'auto' side as i can... i still need them to veg. in the veg. cycle. A few of them are just too set on auto-flowering to clone well or go back to veg. growth. Others are more willing.

Pic 3: total of around 72 plants that are still marching on (about 1/3 pictured). I have killed off all Power Skunks, and almost all White Widows (mine was a poor specimen). G13xHP (20 percent), White Russian (70 percent), and Durban Poison (10 percent) remain. My next crop will be around 60 percent W.R., 30 percent G13xHP, and 10 percent D.P.

I'm still waiting for my replacement parts and my back-up ballast so i can spread these chickees back out under 4 lights rather than the 3 they are under now. I did finally get both of the portable a.c. units for th veg/flower rooms... hooking up the flower a.c. tommorow. The clones are now fairly comfortably set at a constant 80 degrees.
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torrey420

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Ha, after my last post about the Power Skunk, I remembered that I had 2 in my 3rd flower unit! Yanked those bitches out!!! I'm on a 3 week perpetual harvest so anything over 9 weeks flowering is not an option.

Looking good though!


Update Pic 1: total of around 220 clones for the next crop. As soon as the current crop is harvested they will go 12/12 under the HPS lights. I'm looking at putting 2 into each 3 gallon Hempy Bucket. By then they will have been under flourescents for 7-9 weeks, have been topped once... and will be around 12" tall.

Pic 2: One of the auto-flowering phenotype White Russians at 18 days into flowering. They don't all look like this :D I wish they did. I have leaned as heavily toward the 'auto' side as i can... i still need them to veg. in the veg. cycle. A few of them are just too set on auto-flowering to clone well or go back to veg. growth. Others are more willing.

Pic 3: total of around 72 plants that are still marching on (about 1/3 pictured). I have killed off all Power Skunks, and almost all White Widows (mine was a poor specimen). G13xHP (20 percent), White Russian (70 percent), and Durban Poison (10 percent) remain. My next crop will be around 60 percent W.R., 30 percent G13xHP, and 10 percent D.P.

I'm still waiting for my replacement parts and my back-up ballast so i can spread these chickees back out under 4 lights rather than the 3 they are under now. I did finally get both of the portable a.c. units for th veg/flower rooms... hooking up the flower a.c. tommorow. The clones are now fairly comfortably set at a constant 80 degrees.
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DaGambler

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Pic 1: The first batch of clones 18'ish days after being cut. Looks like about 115 there. I lost one clone due to 'failure to thrive'. So 'success rate' is over 99 percent. Another clone i killed cuz i saw a bit of white mold on it. The other 43 clones i killed 'cuz i didn't like their mommas.

Pic 2: Close-up. They are not much worse for the wear at day 18. Most had domes off since day 9'ish... but the last five with domes were just released into the open air today finally, but are deffinitely rooted now. I will have to kill at least three more of these... cloned as an experiment; some strongly auto-flowering White Russians. They may take root... but only in an attempt to flower as their vegetative growth has stalled completely. Most of the other White Russian clones will go back into vegetative mode fairly easily.

Pic 3: The second batch of clones taken 2 days ago. There are 120 of those.

Pic 4: Close-Up of the Happy Farmer. Together these 235 clones will hopefully give me at least 198 lovely ladies for the next crop, 2 clones per 3 gallon Hempy Bucket.

Pic 5: The Big Girls around day 18. The sun is just beginning to rise in the north-west.

Pic 6: One half of the room. They are now arranged in (2) 9x4 patterns. (72 total.) The girls on the right are the ones leaning more toward the Auto-Flowering side of the Serious Seeds White Russian strain (Ak47xWhite Widow).. and a couple of the Mr. Nice-G13xHP from Sensi Seeds which stays very compact (indicaxindica). On the left side are mostly Durban Poison (apparently a pure sativa, though quite compact) and White Russian.

Pic 7: The other half of the room. A much more even canopy. 'Fraid the picture is a bit dark. Finally got all four lights working again.
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